Scala 2017

The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018

Scala

Key takeaways & Fun facts

Java

Go

Swift & Objective-C

Databases

Demographics & Methodology

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Python

Scala

Team tools

Raw data

C++

PHP

JavaScript

DevOps

C#

Ruby

Kotlin

The Scala questions were only shown to the developers who chose Scala as one of their three primary programming languages.

Which versions of Scala do you regularly use?

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Scala.js is the compilation target for 9% of Scala devs, while 6% use scala-native as the target.

Which versions of Java do you regularly use?

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Which interactive Scala environments do you regularly use?

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Which unit-testing frameworks do you regularly use, if any?

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This question was only answered by respondents who either write or use unit tests.

Which frameworks / libraries do you regularly use for web-development, if any? (%)

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Two-thirds of Scala devs develop web-backend for a living.

Data analysis apps are the main source of income for a third of scala devs.

Which build systems do you regularly use, if any?

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53% of Scala developers use sbt 0.13, while 42% work with version 1.0

Most developers (62%) do not use macros or do not know anything about them. Only 3% use blackbox macros and 4% use whitebox ones.

Which frameworks / libraries do you regularly use? (%)

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Key takeaways & Fun facts

Java

Go

Swift & Objective-C

Databases

Demographics & Methodology

C

Python

Scala

Team tools

Raw data

C++

PHP

JavaScript

DevOps

C#

Ruby

Kotlin

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